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Pomegranate Health

A podcast about the culture of medicine.

You'll hear clinicians, researchers and advocates discuss all aspects of professionalism and quality improvement in healthcare. This includes clinical ethics, diagnostic bias, better communication and more equitable systems. For a sampler of these diverse themes of professional practice take a listen to Episode 132 and Episode 125.

If RACP is your CPD home, you can log time spent listening to each episode with the "Add activity to MyCPD" button. And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the [Case Report] series might help you prepare for your long case clinical exams.

This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], featuring authors from the Internal Medicine Journal sharing their latest research. Meanwhile, the [Journal Club] episodes give RACP members a place to talk through their research published in other academic journals.

Feel free to leave feedback in the comments section for each episode or send it to us via email at podcast@racp.edu.au.

Latest episodes

Ep132: Ten Years of Pomegranate Health

Pomegranate Health marks ten years of podcasting so we delve into the back catalogue to showcase some of the most compelling stories. You’ll also hear how podcast themes are identified from all the domains of medicine of professionalism.

Ep131: The semantics of CPR

In this podcast we discuss some low-value care that has come about from semantic decay in the specificity of the terms “cardiac arrest” and “cardiopulmonary resuscitation”.

Ep130: "The motherhood penalty"

Female representation over to more senior stages of a medical career suffers from a “leaky pipeline”. A major factor in this is the time taken out to raise children but there are practical interventions that can be implemented and biases than need overturning.

[Case Report] 65yo with ST elevation during AF ablation procedure

Not all ST-elevations are created equal. Trainees would benefit from considering a broader number of causes for this presentation.

Ep128: Brushing off the cobwebs

Taking long breaks from medicine for can lead to loss of skills and confidence. Simulation training is an effective way to brush off the cobwebs before returning to practice.

[Case Report] 74yo with dyspnoea after AF ablation

A 74-year-old male presents with shortness of breath less than two weeks after AF ablation. This discussion gives an update of technological interventions for atrial fibrillation and their risks.

Ep126: Trying times for Māori medics

Medical schools in Aotearoa-New Zealand have turbocharged their intake of Māori and Pasifika students but these graduates have not trickled through to the RACP’s training programs in great numbers. We take a look at the culture of training environments and also the recent politicking over Māori self-governance.

[Case Report] 52yo with hand clumsiness after Chiari operation

52-year-old female presenting with clumsiness and paresthesia of the right hand had three weeks prior undergone a suboccipital craniotomy for a Chiari malformation. She had accompanying headaches, but there was a past medical history of migraines and a family history of a Factor V Leiden mutation.

Ep124: Pleural medicine comes of age

Professor Gary Lee established the first dedicated pleural service in the southern hemisphere in 2009. In this podcast he summarises key developments in the management of pleural disease over the last thirty years.

[Case Report] 42yo male with fever following liver transplant

A 42-year-old male transplant patient experiences a devastating fever. His treating clinicians discuss the tangled diagnostic considerations for an immunosuppressed patient.

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